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The California Faculty Association (CFA) called for a November strike against the California State University (CSU) system in protest of wage negotiation talks Wednesday at an eSummit online press conference.

CFA members will meet at California State Universities Dominguez Hills and East Bay on Nov. 17 to protest the CSU system’s refusal to give salary increases promised in contracts for the 2008-09 and 2009-10 fiscal years.

Faculty members will protest reopeners, or provisions that allow altering parts of a contract (such as wages) before the contract has been fulfilled, in order to receive promised salary increases.

The salary increases in question center around two programs, the equity pay program, which raises pay for long-term faculty members who are paid less than newly-hired faculty, and the Service Salary Increase (SSI), which would raise the salaries of approximately 40 percent of CSU faculty members, according to the

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The current fiscal crisis has caused protest at CSUs before. On April 13, members of the California Faculty Association at Cal Poly staged a protest in the University Union Plaza to speak out against the proposed budget cuts.

Chancellor’s Office.

Both raises were agreed upon in the 2007 three-year contract between the CSU

and CFA, before the financial crisis in 2008.

With the slashes in CSU state funding after the fi-

nancial crisis, the Chancellor reopened the 2008-09 and 2009-10 years to cut raises, said Alice Sunshine,

communications for the CFA.

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“Local, because it’s easier to get my hands on the news.”

• Hayley Berryhill nutrition junior

“Local, because the stories are more relevant to my life.”

• Jessie Pease computer science freshman

“National, because I want to know what’s going on in the world.”

• Alexandra Morales computer science freshman

The Cal Poly Consultative Search Committee held the second provost candidate forum Friday morning.

There, Andrew Grosovsky, University of Massachusetts Dean of Science and Mathematics, addressed the issue of diversity on campus, as well as the lesser-known topic of “male student success.”

“I’ve already had a rich opportunity to meet Cal Poly students, staff and faculty,” Grosovsky said at the forum.

“I’ve been immediately impressed by one commonality: that everybody expresses dedication and affection for this remarkable campus.”

Grosovsky spoke highly of the campus, and his desire to be part of student life and assist with student success.

While this might have appealed to attendees, some faculty members, such as graphic communications department chair Harvey Levenson, wanted to know how Grosovsky plans to improve diversity on and off campus.

Levenson said Grosovsky has amazing experience in dealing with diversity, but wanted to know what plans the provost candidate had to increase diversity not only on campus but in the community as well.

According to Levenson,

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increasing diversity “would simply make for a more intellectually stimulating cosmopolitan university community, as opposed to a relatively provincial one.”

Grosovsky responded by suggesting Cal Poly encourage diverse points of views by gaining exposure to people of varying experiences, appealing to underrepresented students and enhancing their success in college.

“I am deeply committed to student success,” Grosovsky said. “The provost should take a big role in assisting students (to) succeed.”

Male student success was another topic discussed during the questioning period. Jim LoCascio, associate professor in mechanical engineering, brought this issue to the forum’s attention.

LoCascio said male-failure and drop out rates are at an alltime high.

Grosovsky said he knew of this issue, and has himself noticed that males are showing up to class less each year.

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Andrew Grosovsky, University of Massachusetts Dean of Science and Mathematics, is the second provost candidate to hold a forum at Cal Poly. “I am deeply committed to student success. The provost should take a big role in assisting students (to) succeed,” Grosovsky said.

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“All the pay raises that were in the contract were eliminated, and at the same time they’ve been paying campus presidents more, hiring more management,” Sunshine said.

The CFA hopes the protest will let the Chancellor’s Office know that the focus of the university should be on teaching and not administration, Sunshine said.

The reopeners not only draw the attention away from the focus on learning, but are also unfair to faculty and students, Sunshine said.

“The real emphasis of the university should be on the classroom,” Sunshine said.

“They want to charge the students more, and pay the teachers less.”

But the CSU was released from obligation to raise those salaries when the CSU fell upon hard financial times, according to CSU media specialist Erik Fallis.

Though both the 2008-09 and 2009-10 contracts allowed for certain raises, the contracts also state the CSU could choose to not give those raises in the event of funding cuts.

“What we and the university agreed to at the time, which is fairly standard language, is that we would have a reopener in the agreement if the state did not fund the CSU to a certain level,” Fallis said.

The state not only didn’t give the CSU the baseline funding expected, but cut CSU funding for the future.

The result was a “desperate times call for desperate measures” budget situation, Fallis said.

“We’re in a whole different type of funding contract environment than when the whole thing was originally bargained,” he said.

The CSU first implemented furloughs, and then

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The Supreme Court opens one of its most anticipated terms today, in which the justices could strike down President Barack Obama’s health care law, empower local police to arrest illegal immigrants and declare an end to affirmative action in colleges and universities.

The cases coming before the court “address some of the central issues facing the country,” said former Solicitor General Walter Dellinger. The clashes over health care and immigration “are not mere lawyers’ issues, but fundamental questions about how

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The budget deficit in California resulted in the CSU budget being cut beyond the baseline and negatively affected funding for the future, CSU media specialist Erik Fallis said. reopened the contracts to make up for the money lost.

It is because of the CFA’s willingness to comply with furloughs in 2009-10 that the Chancellor’s Office expected the faculty to understand the reopeners, Fallis said.

Instead, the CFA is calling for a strike, which Fallis said is only going to cause the educational system more harm.

“Concerted activity is, at the moment premature, disruptive and puts students in jeopardy,” he said.

The faculty’s priority always will be students, however, said CFA San Luis Obispo chapter president and mechanical engineering professor Glen Thorncroft.

“The faculty are very, very

concerned with making sure students aren’t affected, or minimally affected,” Thorncroft said. “This would be a one-day strike if it happens.”

Though the protests are scheduled to take place at Cal State Dominguez Hills and Cal State East Bay only, faculty members at Cal Poly are planning to participate as well, Thorncroft said.

Cal Poly faculty will be holding their own “informational picketing” on Nov. 8, and those faculty members who choose to, will go to the protests on Nov. 17 as well to express their frustration, Thorncroft said.

“The sense is that the Chancellor is not dealing fair or evenly in the bargaining, and we see this,” Thorn-

croft said.

The CFA is currently collecting commitment cards from faculty members to see if the possibility of a strike has enough popular support.

If most of the CSU faculty reply favorably, strikes are likely to happen first in Cal State Dominguez Hills and Cal State East Bay, and later at other institutions, until the faculty feel that they have been dealt with fairly, Thorncroft said.

“The problem really in my mind is here we are in a budgetary crisis, and the chancellor is literally refusing to raise faculty and staff salaries, and says you’ve got to pay the executives what they’re worth,” Thorncroft said. “That’s a slap in the face.”

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the country is governed.”

“By June of 2012, this may prove to be among the most momentous terms in recent decades,” said Elizabeth Wydra, chief counsel for the Constitutional Accountability Center in Washington.

The justices will decide over the next few months whether to hear the cases. If they do, rulings will be handed down by late June, just as the presidential campaign moves into high gear.

Most legal scholars predict the justices will not steer clear of the controversies.

“The fact that the issues are politically charged and it is an election year won’t cause them a moment of hesitation,” said Harvard law professor Richard Lazarus.

The court now has five Republican appointees and four Democrats, and in major cases that divide along ideological lines, the conservative wing prevails most of the time.

The major issues: Immigration: Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer wants the court to rule that states and their police can question and arrest illegal immigrants.

Lower court judges blocked Arizona’s law from taking effect, saying the federal government has exclusive control over immigration. But last week, a judge in Alabama cleared parts of a similar state law to go

The fact that the issues are politically charged and it is an election year won’t cause (the Justices) a moment of hesitation. richard lazarus harvard law professor

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that (Grosovsky) was aware of that.”

Grosovsky said this issue could bring problems in the future due to a lack of different perspectives from males in the classroom.

He also ties this to his diversity claims, and said if both male retention rates and diversity were increased on Cal

“Ireland to see the culture and relate it back to my family, since I’m 50 percent Irish.”

Poly’s campus, students would see benefits.

The final two upcoming forums will be held in the Advanced Technology Lab building this upcoming week — the first on Oct. 4, introducing Brenda Case Scheer, University of Utah Dean of Architecture and Planning, and on Oct. 7 when University of Wisconsin, La Crosse provost and vice president for academic affairs Kathleen Finken will visit campus.

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Andrew Grosovsky university of Massachusetts Dean of science and math

Graphic communications department chair Harvey Levenson questioned Grosovsky about increasing diversity.

Levenson said itwould simply make for a “more intellectually stimulating, cosmopolitan university community, as opposed to a relatively provincial one.”

into effect there. This legal split means the high court will likely move soon to resolve this state-versus-federal dispute over who can enforce the immigration laws.

A ruling upholding the Arizona immigration law would encourage more states and cities to adopt measures that crack down on illegal residents.

Affirmative action: In September, two white students who were turned down for admission by the University of Texas appealed to the high court, arguing that officials wrongly used race to favor minority applicants at the expense of whites and Asian Americans. Their appeal urges the court to outlaw the use of race as an admissions factor in public universities, just as the court of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. in a 5-4 decision barred public schools from assigning students based on race to achieve classroom diversity.

Health care: Republican officials from 26 states are urging the justices to rule that the Democratic-controlled Congress overstepped its power by regulating the health insurance market. They want the court to void the requirement that all Americans must have health coverage by 2014 or pay a tax penalty.

The health care case could be a defining moment for Roberts.

Now beginning his seventh

• Mary Anne Breede mechanical engineering sophomore

“New Zealand because there’s really good surfing.”

• Klarq Treiberg forestry and natural resources freshman

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Local governments in California will be unable to ban male circumcision under a new state law signed Sunday by Gov. Jerry Brown.

The bill, by Democratic Assemblyman Mike Gatto, was drafted in response to a proposed San Francisco ballot measure that would have prohibited any foreskin cutting that was not deemed medically necessary in that city. That proposed ordinance was struck from the ballot by a Superior Court judge in June, amid protests from doctors and religious groups. A similar measure was also proposed in the city of Santa Monica, but was later pulled back by proponents.

Gatto said his measure will “protect parental rights and liberties.”

The bill was one of 44 measures approved by Brown, who has hundreds more on his desk that must be approved or vetoed

by Oct. 9. Brown also vetoed four bills Sunday.

Among the laws Brown signed was one that creates new penalties for the sale of synthetic cannabis products, which have been sold in convenience stores, tobacco shops and other outlets around the state. By some accounts, the products have effects similar to marijuana.

The fines for selling synthetic cannabis now outweigh the penalties for selling small quantities of actual marijuana. Under the law signed by Brown on Sunday, anyone selling the syn-

thetic product may be hit with a $1,000 fine and face up to six month of jail time. Sales of less than 28 ounces of marijuana carry no jail time and a maximum fine of $100.

Organized labor scored a victory Sunday with Brown’s signature of a measure that would prohibit local officials from imposing bans on union labor agreements for publicly funded construction projects. The measure by state Senate leader Darrell Steinberg, a Democrat, emerged on the final days of the legislative session, and passed through both legislative houses without a single Republican in support.

Opponents of the measures said it would mandate cities and counties to agree to labor contracts on all local building projects, but Brown dismissed those concerns in a signing message Sunday.

“Contrary to what the opponents claim, this bill does not require any local government to adopt a (labor agreement),” Brown wrote. “In fact, this bill preserves the right of all sides to debate what obviously is a hotly contested issue. Seems fair to me — even democratic.”

Many significant pieces of legislation are still awaiting Brown’s signature or veto.

Among them are a measure that would create up to 100,000 dues-paying union members from the ranks of home child-care workers, and another controversial measure that would prohibit ballot initiatives from appearing on primary ballots.

year as the court’s leader, Roberts comes from a conservative tradition that believes in limits on the powers of the federal government and a limited role for judges in deciding highly political questions. Those two principles are in conflict in the health care case.

On the one hand, a high court ruling upholding the insurance mandate would suggest the federal government could tell Americans what products they must buy. Could Congress require Americans to buy American-built cars or to pay a tax for not joining a health club? Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, a Republican, said last week that striking down Washington’s requirement to buy health insurance would “define the boundaries of Congress’ power” and “defend Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

But a decision to strike down the law would be the court’s most dramatic veto of major national legislation since the justices struck down President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first New Deal measures in 1935.

Since then, generations of law students have been taught that in matters of economics and business, Congress makes the law, and the court stands aside.

If the court were to void the individual mandate, it would put health care reformers in a box. They could go back to Congress and seek a fix, but Republican lawmakers are not likely to vote for more taxes to make up for the loss of revenue from those who do not want to buy insurance.

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ism if a narrow right-leaning majority were to throw out a national health care overhaul that was championed by the president and passed by the House and Senate.

Political activists on the left have not forgiven the Roberts court for its 5-4 ruling last year

that struck down the longstanding bans on corporations and unions spending freely on election campaigns. A ruling striking down the health care law could make “judicial activism” a political rallying cry for the left, just as it has been on the right for a generation.

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WORD ON THE STREET What’s your favorite banned book?

First ATOG brings a night of slam poetry and self-expression SAMANTHA SULLIVAN samanthasullivan.md@gmail.com

Diversity and cultural issues hit the Chumash Auditorium in the form of Another Type of Groove (ATOG) on Wednesday, Oct. 5. The featured poets are Prentice Powell and Ner City, according to the Another Type of Groove website.

The MultiCultural Center and Student Life and Leadership created ATOG in 2000 after being inspired by a Sacramento poetry venue called Mahogany. The format contains an open mic section for anyone who signs up, followed by featured poets.

ATOG coordinator and industrial engineering senior Megan McIntyre said she is

also the Master of Ceremonies (MC) and in charge of getting the featured poets.

She said spoken word is a rap that essentially exposes the problems in the world.

“It’s an on-campus poetry slam,” McIntyre said.

Shawn Gullatt of Ner City (pronounced inner city) has never performed his spoken word in San Luis Obispo before. He said the city was brought to his attention through his good friend and fellow poet, Prentice Powell’s, Facebook page.

“Prentice was standing on stage in front of a sea of people, and they were all in the ‘b-boy’ and ‘b-girl’ (cross the arms and lean back) stance,” Gullatt said. “I thought to my-

self, ‘That crowd is bananas!’”

Powell and Ner City, both of whom have preformed with John Legend, will share the stage this Wednesday, and Gullatt said he can’t wait.

Gullatt said he wrote his first poem because he was inspired by the frustration trapped inside his mind.

“Instead of being destructive — or even worse, selfdestructive — I poured it out on paper, memorized it and told it to the world,” he said.

“I really didn’t think or care at that time that the world could relate to it, I just needed them to listen.”

Gullatt said he began performing on stage after a friend opened his eyes.

“A friend of mine told me

that I was wasting my life rapping about foolish things and that I should channel that energy and writing into something more positive,” he said.

“He took me to a spoken word spot, and I was hooked.”

During the open mic section, students have the opportunity to express themselves, whether about cultural issues or to just get something off of their chest, too.

Civil engineering senior Marielle Cuison said she has read poetry at every ATOG since her freshman year in 2008.

“I try my best to sign up for open mic,” Cuison said. “I’ve also read at a few open mics back home in the Bay Area.”

Cuison, who was ATOG’s coordinator last year, said reading her poetry out loud allows her to give them a little something extra.

“I can say words the way I want to say them instead of leaving them in ink for others to interpret,” she said. “I can present my poem the way I want to and the way I wrote it to be.”

Other ATOG attendees, such as biomedical engineering senior Aaron Rowley, were initially drawn to ATOG because of the performances.

Rowley said he fell in love with spoken word in his second year after watching poets Taylor Mali and Anis Mojgani on stage. Since then, he has taken to performing at ATOG. “My first spoken word piece was essentially my coming out piece,” he said. “It was a good way for me to release a lot of

the anxiety that I had built up, but it was also a way to reach out to audience members that may have been going through a similar process.”

Rowley, who also works for the Prism Peer Counseling program through the Pride Center, said he performs as often as he can because it is a great creative outlet, and the crowd is always awesome.

McIntyre said she hopes to expand ATOG by getting the word out to students, as well as by forming a slam team.

If students want to help, McIntyre said to go to the MCC for more information.

“We’re always looking for more people to get involved,” she said.

There are six poetry readings this year. ATOG takes placethe first Wednesday of every month from 7:30 to 10 p.m in Chumash Auditorium, except for December and January.

The event is free and open to the public.

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“Harry Potter.”

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Get out of the dorms and explore SLO Leila Durmaz is a journalism freshman and Mustang Daily freshman columnist.

The first week of classes will soon turn into the first month, the first quarter and, quickly, the first year of college. Is it just me, or does it already feel like it has been a month since our little freshmen selves moved in? It’s weird to think that we have spent so little time here but have already become situated with good friends and were even able to find all our classes without getting lost. Well, maybe not quite the latter.

If there is one thing that we probably have not gotten used to yet, it’s the workload. I don’t know about you, but senior year was one of the easier, if not easiest, years of high school.

Yes, it was the year of dreaded

college applications and the added pressure from friends to ask that one girl to senior prom (this goes out to the guys), but it was also the year we slid by in classes, just enough so that we were able to pass. Can you say senioritis much?

Coming to college is different. We definitely have a lighter class load and spend less hours in class daily than we did in high school, but we probably spend a good chunk of our time sitting in our dorms, lying out in the grass or chilling in the Robert E. Kennedy Library, reading and doing work for our classes.

And though it might be difficult to juggle a few classes and the heavy workload, it will definitely be worth it because you know what they say: Work hard, play hard.

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You know what they say: Work hard, play hard.

• Michael Waddington aerospace engineering senior

“‘Catcher in the Rye.’” • Lacey Post kinesiology sophomore

HOROSCOPES MONDAY, OCTOBER 3 LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You can do something that others have not been able to do — though they boast a great deal more experience and so-called expertise.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — What begins as a casual affair is likely to become something in which you will take great pride as you display to others a real talent.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You’ll have a great many choices put before you today, but you are likely to decide on that which is traditional and most familiar.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You mustn’t be too quick to judge someone who is doing something you would never consider doing, for you are not in his or her shoes.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — There’s much to be said for experience, and today you can prove that you have what it takes.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — While others would swiftly resort to that which is most familiar, you’re likely to choose that which brings you the most excitement.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You may decide to put yourself in the line of fire today because there is no other way to get the job done. It’s not your first choice.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You’ll want to take more care than usual in organizing and cleaning around the home. Much depends on your ability to avoid complications.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You may want from someone what he or she is unwilling to give — at least for now. Be patient — and by all means, be yourself.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You may not know where to focus your attention, as the choices available to you are all compelling. The most viable option will reveal itself.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You’re in no mood to limit yourself today — especially when it comes to one of your favorite activities. Too much of a good thing? No way.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You may be able to reach a goal today by approaching it from a different direction.

Altering your course midway can also yield results.

beautiful San Luis Obispo, there is plenty to do out and about. However, being the new freshmen that we are, most of us probably do not know what is going on in our new community and on campus.

On campus, grab some friends and go bowling at Mustang Lanes (located in the University Union,) then go rock climbing outside at Poly Escapes during the week for free, if you’re looking for more excitement.

If you haven’t already, I suggest you take a hike. No, don’t stop reading this, but put on your Nikes and shorts, grab a water bottle and step outside.

Located right behind the red brick-residence hall Fremont is the trail to the famous “P” located on the hill.

Enjoy the outdoors and say hello to some horses as you hike up to the “P” to watch the sunrise, sunset or even just the sun at noon. It is an amazing sight to see the entire Cal Poly campus and most of San Luis Obispo. Instead of just hiking to the “P,” go all the way up to the top of the hill for an even more beautiful view.

There is also Bishop Peak

which I hear is a beautiful, moderately challenging hike that gives you an even better view than the top of the “P” does. I have not been able to hike Bishop myself, but judging from friends Facebook pictures, it really does look amazing.

If you’re more of a biker, there are plenty of biking trails in and around San Luis Obispo that are perfect for even the most casual biker. Explore downtown trails, wine country and more to feel the wind in your hair, or lack thereof, and get away from your busy schedules for a bit.

If you’re not into hiking or biking, go out Thursday night.

Four blocks of Higuera Street downtown are blocked off every Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m. just for San Luis Obispo’s block party: Farmers’ Market. Take a walk through the streets to enjoy the air filled with the aroma of delicious food from local vendors and the sound of entertainment. Take your time people watching and buy some fresh fruits and veggies to stack in your dorm refrigerator so you have some healthy snacks in arm’s reach because, really, it’s a good idea if you are

too lazy to go to the Pre-Rec to avoid the Freshmen 15. Although, I do feel like walking around campus to your classes and to the dining halls is an exercise in itself, but that might just be me.

The night doesn’t end there, though. Once Farmers’ Market ends, get dressed up in cowboy boots and flannels and head over to The Graduate for line dancing at 9 p.m.

For a cover charge of $10, try it out even if you think it’s a dorky thing to do, because I guarantee you will possibly have the best Thursday night ever. Who needs “Thirsty Thursdays” when you have “Line Dancing Thursdays?”

As for an upcoming event, head over to the coastal city of

Pismo Beach on Oct. 14 to enjoy the ocean spray for an annual Clam Festival.

If clams aren’t your thing, there are plenty more things for you to do. Watch a live parade, participate in a surf contest, enjoy a clam chowder cook-off and partake in the sandcastle building contest.

The festival runs until Oct. 16, so definitely make your way over to get some of that beach breeze.

Freshman class, as much as you should work hard in your classes, don’t forget to devote some time to be with your friends and explore this town we now call home. Because before you know it, our freshman year will soon be over (cliché, but so true).

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Guantanamo Bay: powerful ‘symbol’ Joseph Margulies is a lawyer with the MacArthur Justice Center and a law professor at Northwestern University.

He is the author of “Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power,” and is working on a book about the effect of Sept. 11 on national identity. He wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.

The prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is again in the news. The two Americans released this month by Iran have reported that when they complained about conditions in their Tehran prison, the jailers would “immediately remind us of comparable conditions at Guantanamo Bay.” Such is the power of symbols.

Symbols are important, and we ignore them at our peril.

But even in these hyperpartisan times, when symbols are baseball bats used by thugs in the public square to beat reason senseless, I like to pretend that the truth is worth pursuing. And one part of that truth is that conditions at Guantanamo are vastly superior to those at any maximum-security prison on the U.S. mainland.

I say this as the lawyer who has been involved in challenges to Guantanamo longer than anyone in the United States. I was counsel of record in Rasul v. Bush, the first Guantanamo case in the Supreme Court, and today represent Abu Zubaydah, who was the first person tortured by the CIA and the man for whom the infamous torture memos were written. After our victory in Rasul, I was one of the first lawyers to go to the prison, and by now I cannot count the number of times I have returned there.

Conditions were not always as they are today.

Beginning in late 2002, and continuing well into 2004, the interrogation techniques at Guantanamo were equal parts crude and cruel.

It was stupidity, sometimes torture, and no amount of after-the-fact rationalization can make it better.

Living conditions were likewise appalling, at first to facilitate the interrogations and later as a result of a misguided crackdown after three prisoners committed suicide.

But interrogations have long

To whom it may concern, Today I read the front page article about Cal Poly appointing the new vice president of university advancement and the Cal Poly Fund. I was very disappointed to find absolutely no mention of the Cal Poly Phonathon. I have been working for the Phonathon for more than a year now and have personally raised more than $15 thousand for university advancement.

The article talked so much about the importance of getting alumni involved and fundraising to combat the increasing budget cuts, but no one mentioned the students actually working hard six days a week and raising the funds. In fact, we raised more than $1 million for university advancement last year alone.

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“Conditions at Guantanamo are vastly superior to those at any maximum-security prison on the U.S. mainland,” said Joseph Margulies, lawyer and author of “Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power.” After visits to the prison, Margulies said this wasn’t always the case. ended, and since late 2006, conditions have improved.

That, in turn, should dispatch another myth: that improvements at the base are somehow the work of the Obama administration.

Such drivel reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of American government.

The fact is that the great majority of the senior career officers in the U.S. military never wanted to make Guantanamo into the pit that it became in late 2002. But it was not until late 2006 that the iron grip of vice president Dick Cheney and his legal counsel and later chief of staff David Addington loosened enough that the officers could reclaim the prison and begin to reshape it in a more humane form.

The military deserves the credit for improvements at the prison, not the Obama administration.

But if we agree that the truth is worth pursuing, then we should not stop halfway. We should not stop, as partisans

may like, with the acknowledgment that conditions are much improved. The whole truth is that the prison remains a disaster. While the great moral bankruptcy of the base was once its conditions, today it is the shameful fact that scores of prisoners who have been cleared for transfer by two administrations remain in custody.

No one suggests they have committed a war crime; no one suggests they will be prosecuted in military or civilian court; everyone involved in their detention agrees they pose no threat to the United States and that they should be transferred to their home countries.

Yet they languish for no better reason than because truth cannot breathe in this toxic atmosphere. They may never hold their children, or say goodbye to a dying mother. Their fate is the four walls of a prison cell, and the country should not congratulate itself on the fact that once the prison was worse.

Some say the prisoners may challenge their detention in court. They may seek, as the

lawyers say, a writ of habeas corpus. But no one takes that seriously anymore. For all the foolish talk about judicial independence, the same hysteria has settled over both the Capitol and the courthouse. Today, the judiciary is to law not quite what the Chicago Black Sox were to baseball, but every bit what Keystone was to cops.

Yet so ridiculous the whole debate has become that even to utter these words risks a special sort of opprobrium — the mark of the traitor, either to the left, which is committed to using any excuse to bash the prison, or to the right, which invokes any falsehood so long as it helps keep every prisoner there forever. Today, what passes for intelligent discussion summons to mind James Russell Lowell, from more than a century ago: “I loved my country so, as only they “Who love a mother fit to die for may; “I loved her old renown, her stainless fame.

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The blocks finally went Cal Poly’s way Friday night as the women’s volleyball team halted UC Davis’ 11-match winning streak and earned its first victory in Big West Conference play.

The Mustangs continued their momentum on Saturday with another sweep, this time against Pacific, moving their record to 2-2 in the Big West.

Sophomore middle blocker Jennifer Keddy recorded a career-high 21 kills in the victory over Pacific, while sophomore outside hitter Kristina Graven had 14 kills of her own. Set scores went 25-17, 25-21 and 25-22. Graven also blocked the final point of the UC Davis match to end Cal Poly’s twomatch losing streak.

The Mustangs defeated the Aggies 25-21, 25-23 and 25-20 for their sixth win of the season thanks to an aggressive defense that out-blocked UC Davis 10-8.

“Mott Gym was unbelievable tonight,” interim head coach Caroline Walters said. “We love playing at home. The fans were tremendous, and we really fed off their energy.”

The Mustangs entered the game with an overall record of 5-10, and were in last place in the Big West Conference with a 0-2 league record. Cal Poly was 0-5 against ranked opponents this season, including having just lost a 5-set match to rival Long Beach State 25-22, 24-26, 21-25 and 16-14.

UC Davis traveled to San Luis Obispo with a 16-1 overall record and was in first place in the conference at 2-0. The Aggies’ only loss coming into the match was against the University of North Dakota in four sets.

“We absolutely think that we are better than our record indicates,” Walters said. “We are going to continue to practice with the lineup we started tonight and get better.”

The Mustang victory against the Aggies was a team effort.

Standout Keddy led Cal Poly with 16 kills, and Graven added 10 more to bolster an improved offense.

Keddy had only two errors and lead the way in the decisive third set with six kills. For the match, Cal Poly had a .210 hitting percentage compared to UC Davis’ .116.

“There is always more pressure in league games,” senior libero Lauren Law said. “Tonight we came in focused, and our passing was really improved.”

Cal Poly had a 40 to 37 advantage in digs. Law had 12 digs while Graven and Keddy had 10 and nine, respectively. Caroline Mercado totaled 16 digs for the visiting Aggies. However, UC Davis was doomed by 27 errors including nine in the decisive third set. Cal Poly played a cleaner game, only committing 18 errors.

“We always come out with the same intensity for each set,” Law said. “But after the second set, we could feel the momentum on our side were really confident.”

UC Davis started the third set

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Sophomore setter Kate Walters, sister of interim head coach Caroline Walters, leads the Mustangs with 293 assists in 2011. She averages nearly 10 assists per set. flat and called time-out after falling behind 8-4. They battled back to tie it at 11, but were never able to fully gain momentum.

The team’s comeback wilted down the stretch, and Cal Poly widened the lead to 23-19. After exchanging points, the entire crowd rose to its feet in anticipation of a Mustang victory as Graven successfully blocked UC

Davis’ final attack.

“Going forward, our destiny is in our hands,” Walters said. “We are still in the hunt for a league title. All we need to do is keeping working and improving.”

Walters had a special fan club on hand for the game. Her parents were in the crowd to witness the biggest victory of their daughter’s young career.

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